On this episode of Word Balloon, Dave Gibbons is back to talk
about The Secret Service, his new Icon mini series with Mark
Millar. Of course this being the debut week of the Before Watchemn
prequels, we ask Dave to comment on the ongoing debate over whether
these projects should happen or not. We also talk about bwhere
creator owned projects are in the post Watchemen era, and get an
idea of some of Gibbons future digital plans.

Greg Rucka finishes the latest Rucka Debrief, with talks about
The Punisher, his steampunk swahsbickling web comic Lady Sabre and
the Pirates Of The Ineffable Aether with artist Rich Burchett ,
plus more classic detective debate about the many film and tv
versions of Sherlock Holmes and Philip Marlowe.

Finaly we take you inside a recent Marvel telephone press
conference featuring Christos Gage and Neal Adams talking about
their First X-Men mini series debuting this August. Adams and Gage
field questions about this continuity implant that tells the
earliest tales of Charles Xavier's attempt to save Mutants in the
years before founding his school for the gifted. The creators taklk
about their takes on Magneto Wolverine Sabretooth, and several new
charcters created for the series.